Oodgeroo Noonuccal quotes
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“Let no-one say the past is dead, the past is all about us and within.”
-- Oodgeroo NoonuccalSource : Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Kath Walker (1992). “The dawn is at hand: selected poems”, Marion Boyars Publishers
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“The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.”
Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, 1957.
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“What we have done in the past is not sufficient now to prepare our youth.”
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“The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down.”
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